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- Latin · borrowed fromprōpudiōsus“shameful, disgraceful, infamous”
- English todaypropudious
From Latin prōpudiōsus (“shameful, disgraceful, infamous”), from propudium (“scandal, shameful act; shameful person, wretch”) + -ōsus (“-ose: full of, prone to”), from prō- (“for, to, towards”) + pudēre (“to be ashamed, to cause shame”) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.